No water in my village

[loreta]

Today there is no more water in my village. Not because of the drought but because some bastards have left the water running during all night and so emptying the municipal reservoir (25 thousand liters of water!). So this morning we are like Africans fetching the water at the source.

This situation reminds me that psychopaths are everywhere: in my village as in the elite. We are a mirror of what is happening in this planet. This situation also is a very good lesson: always keep in the back of your mind to be ready for the nuisance of the ill intentions of people who don't care for others.

Going to fetch my water to the source is also a good exercise! This is good. ;D

 

[Eboard10]

Sad to hear that loreta, hope the water issue is solved soon.

Well, at least you have a water source to go to. Picture the same happening to a large town or city - not a pleasant thought.

 

[MK Scarlett]

Today there is no more water in my village. Not because of the drought but because some bastards have left the water running during all night and so emptying the municipal reservoir (25 thousand liters of water!). So this morning we are like Africans fetching the water at the source.

This situation reminds me that psychopaths are everywhere: in my village as in the elite. We are a mirror of what is happening in this planet. This situation also is a very good lesson: always keep in the back of your mind to be ready for the nuisance of the ill intentions of people who don't care for others.

Going to fetch my water to the source is also a good exercise! This is good. ;D

Sorry to hear about your village loreta and wish it will get back soon by hoping each people will be able to get their own water too. You're right, be ready in our minds and our bodies is surely a good way. And lucky your are, there is a source. Living in town, I use to make regularly water supply of the faucet in plastic demijohns to assure us at least we can wash ourselves if we do not have access to water anymore for any reason, even of we drink the water (faucet) once boiled in case of extreme urgency.

 

[ginebra]

I regret that issue of the water Loreta, as already was pointed out, at least you have a source to get the water. I remenber, when I wa a child, going
to the source in my village to get the water to cater for the daily needs. Definitively, it is a good exercice.

 

[MnSportsman]

Loreta,

I am sad to hear that the actions of others have created such a problem for you & those in your village. Hopefully the usage or demand for the water for your villages' needs, will also allow for the reservoir to refill quickly.

I do not know how pure the water was(from the reservoir) that you received from your taps/faucets, or whether it was "treated" for filtration & purification for the village. Which leads me to suggest that you may want to do filtration & purification of the water you gather, yourself, until your taps/faucets are operating correctly again. By filtering the water & then simply bringing the water to a boil, or the use of Chlorine, Iodine, etc., for purification, will certainly help reduce the likelihood of any problems from the chance of tainted/impure water. Getting a waterborne illness is obviously not good.
I will not go into all the methods, but there are some topics here in the forum about water purification. I remember 2 of them, although I am sure there is more information available by using search engines.
Here are 2 that I remember:
Water Purification for Emergency Storage
and,
How to get drinking water from plants in an Emergency

Here are also a couple of websites that contain information that may help if you chose to filter, purify & store water. There are many more to loo at, but these are some I had bookmarked myself.

_http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extension/publicat/wqwm/emergwatersuppl.html

and,
_http://www.i4at.org/surv/bleach.htm

I hope that your situation improves as soon as it can, & wish you good luck in overcoming the difficulties.

 

[Galaxia2002]

Hi Lotera I hope the next time you can prevent this keeping water in bottles (por si acaso!). At least is not as my country when the Government stolen the money to construct new electricity plants and they are rationing in some places and blaming people to spend so much electricity. Completely psychopathic!

 

[loreta]

Hi Lotera I hope the next time you can prevent this keeping water in bottles (por si acaso!). At least is not as my country when the Government stolen the money to construct new electricity plants and they are rationing in some places and blaming people to spend so much electricity. Completely psychopathic!

Thanks MnSportsman for the links, that I will check and the rest for your gentle words.

I always drink the water from the source, it is an excellent water. I never drink from the faucet because it contains toxic products as everywhere. I took this morning a lot of water for the toilets, cleaning the dishes from a small pool that serve for the animals to drink but for drinking me and my dogs and cats I will utilize the water from the source. If the situation continue tomorrow I will have to buy water by bottle because the source, they told me, will stop due that everyone in the village goes there now for water. The problem that we have is a sort of vengeance between the ancient mayor and the new. They are cousins but! This is I think (and I hear) the problem. We live in the 21 century but people act as in the time of the caverns. No civility anymore. No respect for nothing. They act from their crocodile brain, that's all. It is very interesting to see this in action.

I have the sensation to be in the middle of a movie by Marcel Pagnol where sources are vital, where vengeance comes at the surface, where masks fall and you can see what is beyond the mask. I like that. Hard times are coming and it is very important to see how people are. Little crisis like this one is a good drill for everyone, specially for me.

When I was younger than now ;) I lived 6 months in Africa so I know how to adapt myself with very little. I know how to clean myself without toilet paper, how to clean myself with very little water, how to accept what it is with a smile. In Africa it is worse than this. And thank god, we have a source and if this one stop to give water there are others around.

In this village crisis I can see many things: how people like to criticize others when they are far away but when they are in front of the person have a mask of hypocrisy. Also I see fear, jealousy, insecurity, gentleness. People that are ready to help, others that don't care.

 

[MK Scarlett]

I have the sensation to be in the middle of a movie by Marcel Pagnol where sources are vital, where vengeance comes at the surface, where masks fall and you can see what is beyond the mask. I like that. Hard times are coming and it is very important to see how people are. Little crisis like this one is a good drill for everyone, specially for me.

Some good ones as Jean de Florette et Manon des Sources two beautiful books and movies (by Claude Berri). Thi is a very circonstancial link, to say the least.

In this village crisis I can see many things: how people like to criticize others when they are far away but when they are in front of the person have a mask of hypocrisy. Also I see fear, jealousy, insecurity, gentleness. People that are ready to help, others that don't care.

You're right, this might be a very good exercise of the expression of psychopathy. I lived in a village when I was younger as a teenager. I saw there and during the two first years I lived there, all the wickedness, all the intestine stinginess to arrive at me above as streams of blackness. I was beaten by young people of my age who did not accept the "foreigners". It is necessary to say that the inhabitant of the nearby village is also a foreigner. Then, a Parisian, even let us not speak about it. Then, this jolly fellow decided that I was respectable and I did not want to it to them any more considering that they did not know me.

Edit: orthographic correction

 

[loreta]

Water has come but let me tell you that for many days? We will see. The problem is human: some people are not aware of the importance of water and used it for anything: for their beautiful and magnificent gardens and also for their cars. And they used the water is used uncontrollably in a moment where the village is full of people: showers in huge quantities, clothes cleaning in washing machines, etc. Also that night someone left open the tap of water. Contempt, meanness, all very low emotions are responsible for this water situation that will come again because who did it do not learn.

There is nothing like a crisis like this to learn something. I thought this village was relatively good, sane. I can see that I was wrong. I tend not to judge people even if I know some macabre stories that people told me about them, "secrets" of the village like some family secrets...

Water is there again but I will try to be prepared for the next crisis. ;)

In the subject of village movies, the ones by Mr. Berry are very good. There is also an excellent movie by the authoritarian Mr. Henri-Georges Clouzot, Le Corbeau: a story about a village where you can see all the malevolence and hypocrisy of the inhabitants. All these movies about villages are very interesting because they try to teach us some reality about the villages themselves, contrary to the idea that we have about living in the country as a paradise. There is no paradise in this planet.

Thank you for all your comments!

Ps: What I also saw in this little crisis is that it put some "spice" in the middle of the daily life of the village. I was not alone to think that a crisis like this can be something interesting. I saw all day women go to fetch water at the source, and they seemed very happy remembering also their past where water was not installed in the village, remembering their child years. (This village had regular water just around the 70's. ) I also saw that very very very few man went to fetch the water. What a surprise, my goodness! :D

 

[hesperides]

Glad to know water is running again in your village, Loreta! I can perfectly picture myself how suspicions are now making its own way into eroding people´s relationship like an evergrowing avalanche. Like you said, it´s a good opportunity to know who is who, and also to enhance the strength in not giving into temptation of participating in the noise, all the more since in a village each one knows everyone. I guess your dogs and cats also missed their usual fresh water supply

 

[loreta]

Glad to know water is running again in your village, Loreta! I can perfectly picture myself how suspicions are now making its own way into eroding people´s relationship like an evergrowing avalanche. Like you said, it´s a good opportunity to know who is who, and also to enhance the strength in not giving into temptation of participating in the noise, all the more since in a village each one knows everyone. I guess your dogs and cats also missed their usual fresh water supply

The best attitude is smiling to everyone even if you know that they criticize you. In a village everyone criticize everyone, inventing stories, exaggerating facts, judging others... So I smile to everyone, shut my mouth and open my ears. I am a dog, as a Chinese zodiac sign, and I am a dog in life, must of the time. I smell, I hear... and take naps. :P

Thanks to the source, that was there longtime ago and will be there when we humans would have disappeared, my dogs and cats had very fresh water. :)

 

[Hesper]

I have the sensation to be in the middle of a movie by Marcel Pagnol where sources are vital, where vengeance comes at the surface, where masks fall and you can see what is beyond the mask. I like that. Hard times are coming and it is very important to see how people are. Little crisis like this one is a good drill for everyone, specially for me.

Thanks, loreta. This all makes me shudder to think of how people will act when things get really desperate! Lots to think about. Good to hear that you and your dogs and cats are doing all right though :)

 

[MK Scarlett]

Great to hear you have access again to the water loreta... ;)
Open the eyes, open the ears and shut the mouth is a good way in this situation or others.
I hope these next days will not be too hard with temperatures which will exceed 40°C. http://uk.weather.com/regional

 

[loreta]

Thanks, loreta. This all makes me shudder to think of how people will act when things get really desperate! Lots to think about.

You are right. If something happens... I am sure of maybe 10 persons of this village. The rest, I really don't know. And the rest, that are family visitors that just come here in August, impossible to count on them. But in general, the reputation of this village is that everyone, in difficult times, are united. It is not the same as the village just near here, one kilometer from here, a village that I call "the village of the damned" because they are always fighting between them and I know some of them that are evil. I worked in a hotel with 3 women of this village and I decided to leave the job because I was unable to work with people so mad. I was unable to cope with evil people. The hotel I named: "The Hotel of the Devil". I did not have at that time a network like this forum to take advise so for me the best decision was to fly, and fly fast.

 

[Gwenllian]

Thanks Loreta and MK Scarlett, for sharing these experiences. I will definitely have a look and see if I can find these films that you both mentioned.
I also live in a small village and was for a while engaged in helping out organizing activities. But some people were downright nasty, so I stopped doing that.

MK Scarlett, I know how horrible people can be in villages and I am sorry that you were on the receiving end of violence. My eldest son experienced the same thing (he is darker-skinned) in another small village where we used to live. When he does his paperround he has to deal with several older men that treat him like the village idiot, that think that he doesn't speak Dutch and so on.

I was also in Africa for a while and learnt to appreciate water, hygiene and good food over there.
We had two huge water barrels filled with water in case of emergency. It might be a good idea to have them where you live? Don't know whether it rains a lot. Also, think compost toilet in case there is no water. Such a waste having to use water for toilets during emergencies. You might start to wish collecting organic waste, like leaves, sawdust, grass clippings, etc. etc. to cover the droppings in the bucket.

It is a very good idea not to get involved in village politics so to speak. There is always a lot of gossip and mean talk in small villages. At least that is my experience.

I am really glad that you know how to handle yourself in this situation and that you accept it with a smile, as you say. That is a good example to emulate!